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RE: st: how to DE-CAPITALISE variables?
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Maarten buis <[email protected]>
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RE: st: how to DE-CAPITALISE variables?
Date
Mon, 28 Jun 2010 15:58:04 +0000 (GMT)
--- Josef Montag wrote
> I have a dataset in which all variable names are in CAPITAL letters.
> Is there a simple way how to de-capitalise them?
foreach var of varlist _all {
local lower = lower(`var')
rename `var' `lower'
}
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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